Sorry mine is taking so long. I’m very slow + a lot of emotional problems lately. But it’s still nice to write when I can.
theres no time limit for anything here, really, other than any you choose to self-impose.
@Yunsar It’s fun to have other people pick something for you, could lead you in directions you wouldn’t normally expect. Well that’s my reasoning anyway. However, if you’d prefer to pick your own you can do so!
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you’ve got a good writing style and a consistent tone, but a few details don’t quite work for me. Why does everyone react the way they do to the elephant corpses? I get that it’s surreal but there’s only so far I can stretch my logic as a reader. This just seems like a completely nonsensical reaction. Maybe if you explored that a little further, confronted that fact, it would stick? Thanks for sharing!
Could I post a short story I already wrote for my school’s journal?
This is the tweet that got me interested into joining this thread:
I’ll probably need a few days to write this, though.
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sure, why not? It might get lost among everything else though, so you could always make your own thread in this subforum if you wanted, especially if you have multiple things you want to share.
Or maybe I should put like a “misc. stories” section in the second post? What do people think about that? please let me know
ooo that’s a real good one. Taking a few days is good. I advise people to take their time. Like I wrote my story yesterday but I always like to leave it a day before redrafting so I can submit something with a little polish (which I’m planning on doing later today)
Anyway loves, it is NEW PROMPT TIME!
I liked @CosmicLass’s idea from a while back for assigning everyone a different type of apocalypse to write about. So sign up for this round and someone will give you a world-ending catastrophe to inspire you.
I’m happy to come up with the prompts but I like it when other people chip in too, so please feel free to give out apocalypses, or even come up with your own one if you have a really good idea that you are too greedy to share 
This round will run from today, February 27th, until March 12th.
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Oh boy an existential crisis? Count me in! Though I’ll probably end up having a happy ending where the apocalypse gets fixed but, y’know. I tend to go for either happy endings or bittersweet endings, rarely do I go for a complete downer ending.
This sounds drearily fun. What do I get from the 'ol Yawhg gashapon machine?
I’m in. Someone throw me a doomsday!
Yeah I’m in. Still chipping away at my other prompt when I have free time, too.
I’m in, and I’ll steal an apocalypse from another prompt elsewhere: Heat is going out, fires won’t start, and anything relying on combustion no longer works.
And I’ll give one back too:
Untrammeled rapid plant growth is destroying cities and infrastructure.
I’m in. I’m still working on the other one as well.
Sure, I’m up for an apocalypse.
Count me in
People have lost their fertility. We’re all getting older without any new kids
Whaddaya mean that the robots have started making new robots? And what’s a “death laser”?
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Hmm, yeah I think I can work this one. Gonna have to tinker a bit but I can come up with something that (I hope) isn’t too cliche.
Frogpocalypse.
The world wakes up one day to find that the vast majority of its human population has vanished without a trace
Wizards destroy the world while fighting for control of it
… I cant think of any more right now, someone hit bearpigman up with one. Oh, and me while you’re at it!
Finally, it’s my time to shine as a giver of bad ideas.
@Bearpigman, your prompt for the end of the world is that everything has started turning into sand.
@NoodlyVampireQueen, your prompt is that the end of the world was caused when a certain actor took the stage at the Globe Theater.
I’ll be around to give out some other prompts later.
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Ooo, that could be fun. I’ve actually been to the Globe Theatre so that’ll help I guess? I’ll try to take advantage of how vague this one is.
Also I finally finished my round 1 story, here it is:
1,536 words. I have comments enabled, so feel free to give me feedback either here or in the document itself. I ended up getting more personal than I originally thought I would with this one… Maybe that’s a good thing? I just hope I’ve done this justice, and it’s not a trash fire. If it is, please be gentle
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Oooh, two sand-esque prompts in a row
you know what this calls for
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